The Family’s British Fascism by Anton Chatikin

It is impossible to understand the current threat of fas- (later King Edward VII), and financier of the imperial cism in the , and globally, without under- Round Table group and of the Fabian Society; through standing the role of the , which was an inte- Sir Ernst’s New York partner Jacob Schiff (head of gral part of the banking crowd which brought Hitler to Kuhn Loeb bank); and on to Harriman. Other money power in the 1930s, and which set the stage—as con- for Harriman to get up and running came from William duits for the British crown’s policies—for the drive for Rockefeller, co-owner of National City Bank (a Lon- dictatorship by today. We provide the don-New York-Texas interest, later called Citibank) essential overview below. and co-owner of Standard Oil with his brother John D. Rockefeller. The Harrimans thus emerged fourth in . . .[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the London’s infamous quartet of agent-Lords, people tolerate the growth of private power to a alongside J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and Kuhn point where it becomes stronger than their dem- Loeb. ocratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fas- cism—ownership of government by an individ- Harriman Hatches Bush ual, by a group, or by any other controlling Enter : an American edu- private power. cated in England, representing British financiers and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New York Morgan interests. Following World War message to Congress on the Concentration I, Walker organized Harriman and Co., the enterprise in of Economic Power, April 29, 1938. question, for E.H. Harriman’s son Averell. The new bank was based at 39 Broadway, New York, with opera- tions in Germany as well. Prescott Bush, Nazi Banker In 1924, Walker brought in as the bank’s vice presi- dent his son-in-law Prescott Bush, a Yale friend of the The Bush family was formed and raised to power as Harrimans and the Rockefellers. Prescott’s son born the managers and servants of the Harrimans’ trans-Atlantic bank: an enterprise uniquely devoted to the British Empire’s creation of 20th-Century fascism, promoting Adolf Hitler and eugenics. The astounding rotten- ness of the family’s origin persisted through four generations and two U.S. Presidencies, bringing the legacy of British fascism into the present catastrophic Obama regime. The Harrimans had “arrived” in 1898. London royal finance sealed the deal for New York stock broker Edward H. Harriman to acquire the old Union Pacific Railroad, and thus to join the top-tier financier oligarchy. The purchase credit for the Union Pacific passed from Sir Ernst Cassel, personal finan- Prescott Bush’s leading role in promoting eugenics made him a natural cier and counselor to Prince Albert Edward partner for the Nazi master-race strategists.

38 National EIR July 12, 2013 George Herbert Walker (left) and his son-in-law Prescott Bush managed the Union Banking Corp., whose single client was Fritz Thyssen, Hitler’s chief fundraiser (shown with the Führer, right); Bank of England governor Montagu Norman (below) was a key member of the “family.”

that year was named George Herbert Walker Bush. Old man Walker and Prescott Bush man- maments interests managed and brokered through the aged a sub-unit of same Harriman-Bush enterprise in New York, in the overall enter- tandem with Hitler’s Brown House headquarters in prise, which they Munich, and British concerns such as Royal Dutch called the Union Shell. Banking Corpora- This apparatus now plunged ahead for Hitler’s ele- tion (UBC). The vation during the 1932 German election season, under- German fascist Fritz Thyssen, who had been Hitler’s writing the Nazi Party campaign, and the terror deploy- chief political fundraiser since before Hitler’s 1923 at- ment of the Hitler’s private army, the Sturm Abteilung tempted coup d’état, was the UBC’s single client and (SA), or Storm Troopers. Hitler was installed as Chan- depositor. cellor on Jan. 30, 1933. On Feb. 27, the Nazis burned The same overall organization at 39 Broadway fi- down the parliament building (Reichstag) and blamed nanced the American branch of Britain’s global eugen- terrorists. The ensuing emergency decree giving Hitler ics movement, where the Bush family “learned” which dictatorial powers to protect Germany. races and classes should be born, and which should be That would be the model for the spying and other erased. “war on terror” totalitarian measures enacted under As the Depression raged in 1931, the British accel- George W. Bush following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, erated their Hitler project. Harriman and Co. merged and their acceleration under Barack Obama. with the trans-Atlantic Brown Brothers & Co. The Brit- The Thyssen-led Nazi industrial complex in the ish royal family’s leading Hitler supporter, Bank of Ruhr, whose New York financial center was managed England Governor Montagu Norman, was Brown by Prescott Bush, proceeded to pour out a third to a half Brothers’ most powerful figure and heir; he made the of the principal metal products and explosives used in new Brown Brothers Harriman firm his American base, the Nazi military buildup. Harriman and Bush were the in preparation for a German fascist dictatorship. American partners of the British banks and cartel German Nazi master-race strategists were featured at owners providing capital to the Nazi buildup, and shar- the 1932 International Congress of Eugenics in New ing in the plunder as Hitler rolled over central Europe in York, convened under the auspices of the New York en- the lead-up to World War II. terprise then managed by Prescott Bush. UBC and related Harriman-Bush Nazi interests were seized and shut down by the World War II Roos- Putting the Nazis in Power evelt Administration in 1942. By this time, the Bush The UBC political slush fund for Fritz Thyssen family fortune had been made, and genocide was accel- overlapped with other Nazi industrial, minerals and ar- erating.

July 12, 2013 EIR National 39 George H.W. Bush, Depopulator Those who are physically and mentally un- healthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children. . . . The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to pro- create on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years, would . . . free humanity from an immea- surable misfortune. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

The savage war in Southeast Asia, escalated over the dead bodies of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, was raging when Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush chaired the Aug. 5, 1969 hearings of his Republi- can Task Force on Earth Resources and Population. Bush asked eugenics professors William Shockley and Arthur Jensen to explain how high birth rates for African-Amer- icans were allegedly down-breeding our people. Bush was the chief organizer in Congress for the President George Herbert Walker Bush (son of Prescott) carried on the eugenicist policy of his forebears, advising the post-World War II version of the eugenics movement, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (right) to sterilize the whose nominal goal had changed from eugenics to pop- population. ulation reduction. Prescott Bush had been treasurer of the first national campaign in 1947, afford professional service.” and son George H.W. Bush reported for his subcommit- The intent here? To expand the availability of abor- tee Task Force (Congressional Record, July 8, 1970): tions for the “underclass,” to reduce their numbers in “It is almost self-evident that the greater the human the population. population, the greater the demands for natural re- sources How many is too many people?. . . Many be- China and NSSM 200 lieve that our current environmental problems indicate George H.W. Bush left Congress to become U.S. that the optimum level has been surpassed.” Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-73). He used The Bush solution? The underclass must not breed, U.S. resources to ramp up the United Nations Fund for and must not receive advanced medical care that would Population Activities. Bush was chairman of the U.S. foster family formation. Thus, the Task Force report con- Liaison Office (de facto ambassador) in China from tinues: “Family Planning services must be made more September 1974 through December 1975. For Bush accessible to the poor as a proper function of all govern- and his London sponsors, China was the test case and ments. [Our] entire healthcare system should be over- the planned model for drastic reductions in the popula- hauled to create less reliance on specialized medicine tions of uncooperative former colonial countries in the and overburdened hospitals and more dependence on Third World, and the U.S.A. itself. Bush advised Chi- para-medical professionals. The legality of abortion and nese leader Deng Xiaoping to sterilize the population: of sterilization are properly within the purview of state “Bush comfortably discussed with Deng the use of governments where medical laws are widely divergent. widespread and arguably radical birth control methods to “[But the] most disturbing aspect of the abortion limit China’s ever-growing population. ‘I mentioned new issue that was brought before the Task Force, is the dis- discoveries in birth control technology such as injections parity between the availability of professional abortion which bring about temporary sterility which in the future services to those women who can afford the $500-$700 may provide the answers to birth control administration to obtain a therapeutic abortion and the estimated one in rural areas,” the USLO’s [U.S. Liaison Office] report million illegitimate abortions performed by the unli- of Bush’s initial conversation with Deng read. The Chi- censed practitioners for those women who cannot nese leader replied, ‘We are not opposed to such new de-

40 National EIR July 12, 2013 velopments. . . .” But the real problem, for China and alike, Deng concluded, was not controlling population so much as ensur- ing sufficient grain production.”1 National Security Advisor Henry Kiss- inger arrived in Beijing at the end of No- vember, and met with Deng and Bush. Two weeks later, Dec. 10, 1974, Kissinger issued “National Security Study Memo- randum (NSSM 200): Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests,” a policy outlook initiated to a great extent by George H.W. Bush’s eugenicist initiatives. NSSM 200 explained that “we” could not obtain needed natural resources from poor countries if their people were numer- Presidential Library & Museum ous enough to resist our taking them: Anglophile President, G.H.W. Bush joined Britain’s Margaret Thatcher in “The important potential linkage be- fomenting population-reduction wars in the post-Soviet era. tween rapid population growth and miner- als availability . . . flows from the negative effects of ex- resignation. He then headed the Central Intelligence cessive population growth . . . in overcrowded Agency for one year under Nixon’s replacement, under-developed countries. The United States has Gerald Ford. become increasingly dependent on mineral imports Bush stepped out of the Agency and back into his from developing countries in recent decades. . . . The lo- father’s role as international investment banker, from cation of known reserves of higher-grade ores of most January 1977 through 1980. He chaired the executive minerals favours increasing dependence of all industri- committee of the First International Bank of Houston, alized regions on imports from less developed coun- and directed First International Bankshares Ltd. in tries. The real problems of mineral supplies lie, not in London. These were both subsidiaries of the Interfirst basic physical sufficiency, but in the politico-economic group, the largest bank in Texas; Bush travelled back issues of access, terms for exploration and exploitation, and forth to London, the hub of his family’s permanent and division of the benefits among producers, consum- place in the British imperial financial and political in- ers, and host country governments. trigues, intersecting the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and “. . .concessions to foreign companies are likely to Latin America. During this period, China adopted the be expropriated or subjected to arbitrary intervention. brutal eugenicist one-child policy. Kissinger’s NSSM Whether through government action, labor conflicts, 200 was officially adopted as U.S. policy in 1979. sabotage, or civil disturbance, the smooth flow of Partnering with British Prime Minister Margaret needed Materials will be jeopardized. Although popu- Thatcher: Vice President George H.W. Bush (1981-89) lation pressure is obviously not the only factor involved, was the decisive figure in the management of the these types of frustrations are much less likely under Reagan Administration’s covert action, which spawned conditions of slow or zero population growth.” global chaos, narco-trafficking, and permanent war. These initiatives included the secret arming of the Population-Reduction Wars Khomeini regime in Iran, contravening the official George H.W. Bush was chairman of the Republi- U.S. arms embargo; the secret arming of the Contra op- can National Committee under President Richard ponents of the regime in Nicaragua, in flagrant viola- Nixon throughout the Watergate scandal, until Nixon’s tion of another embargo law; the use of terrorist ene- mies, armed by London and Bush, to justify police-state measures that could silence opposition to these and re- 1. Bush meeting with Deng on Nov. 11, 1974, described in The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President, foot- lated crimes; and conniving with the British-Saudi Al note 47, page 70. Yamamah oil deal which created virtually infinite

July 12, 2013 EIR National 41 funding for radical Islamic terror net- works.2 Bush, as U.S. President (1989-93), made population-reduction wars, begin- ning with the invasion of Iraq (August 1990), the agenda for Margaret Thatch- er’s post-Soviet era. He threw U.S. sup- port behind the British Empire’s insis- tence that German reunification be allowed only on agreement to the euro system, under which the continent would be subjected to a monetarist dic- tatorship—while Russia and the East were looted to the point of genocide.3 Upon retiring, President Bush was White House knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, as an In 2001, President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the together began a series of wars under the pretext of fighting terrorism, following Order of the Bath. America’s “Reichstag Fire” on 9/11, that continue to the present time.

George W. Bush, Wars and The second President Bush signed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Dictatorship: The 9/11 Pretext Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (“PA- TRIOT”) Act on Oct. 26, 2001. The Act gave govern- The very sands of the desert would rise to oppose ment agencies new surveillance powers over citizens’ the imposition of outside control on the destinies phone and electronic communications, medical and fi- of these proud peoples. . . . The true enemy of the nancial records, limiting Constitutional rights, on the Arab world is poverty and want. . . . [T]he way to pretext of security. friendship is to be the enemy of that enemy. . . . The Bush “” has been renewed under Our intervention in behalf of England’s oil in- Barack Obama and is still in force. It has been supple- vestments in Iran, directed more at the preserva- mented by numerous other government initiatives, tion of interests outside Iran than at Iran’s own public and covert, to nullify the Constitution.4 development . . . make[s] empty the promises of Compare the Patriot Act to the emergency decree the Voice of America. enacted Feb. 28, 1933 after the Reichstag Fire, the John F. Kennedy, Nov. 14, 1951 radio address Order of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers: Seven and a half months after George H.W. Bush’s “[T]he following is ordered in defense against Commu- son assumed the Presidency, 19 hijackers, 15 of them nist state-endangering acts of violence: Articles 114, Saudi subjects, crashed aircraft into the Twin Towers 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The attackers were the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It sponsored by the British-Saudi partnership. is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal The event and its aftermath were used to bludgeon freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of [opinion] expres- a dazed population and Congress into accepting po- sion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to lice-state measures at home, and a permanent global organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, tele- “war on terror.” graphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as re-

2. See “Would a President Bob Dole prosecute drug super-kingpin George Bush,” EIR Special Report, September 1996. 4. See Edward Spannaus, “A Chronology: How Obama Expanded and 3. See Sergei Glazyev, Genocide: Russia and the New World Order, Consolidated the Bush-Cheney Domestic Spy Dragnet,” EIR, June 14, EIR News Service, 1999. 2013.

42 National EIR July 12, 2013 strictions on property, are also permissible beyond the and condemning ever-growing numbers of the world’s legal limits otherwise prescribed.” people to poverty and unemployment. Continuing his father’s population-reduction legacy, The Blair-Bush Wars George W. Bush adopted a key feature of the British In March 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt sent royal family’s Malthusian policy, pushed by Prime Min- through diplomatic channels, an ultimatum to the Brit- ister Tony Blair. Two pieces of legislature, in 2005 and ish government, demanding that Britain end its spon- 2007, for the first time, established legal mandates for sorship of Hitler’s conquest of Europe, and threatening the use of “renewable fuels”—i.e., food turned into to withdraw all U.S. support. fuel—in gasoline. At the same time, “W” and his brother But in 2001, President George W. Bush and British Jeb undertook a diplomatic effort in Central and South Prime Minister Tony Blair together began a series of America, to convince nations to shift from food produc- wars, that continues to the present time. They began tion to producing biofuels. This policy has contributed to bombing and invading Afghanistan less than a month widespread starvation in areas such as Guatemala, which after 9/11, on the theory that that country was host to the has a higher infant mortality rate than Haiti. is British-Saudi-sponsored al-Qaeda terrorists. Blair and now jockeying to succeed Obama in the Presidency. Bush met in Texas in April 2002, and agreed to a new, Meanwhile, those in the Bush tradition in the Re- bigger war, for the overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam publican Party, in particular, work to block the only al- Hussein. To gain support, British Intelligence con- ternative to a population-reducing Nazi-style austerity cocted, and Blair’s staff “sexed up” a dossier claiming program in the United States: an immediate return to that Iraq was acquiring nuclear weapons capability. FDR’s Glass-Steagall, as the first step in reinstating a Bush had Secretary of State Colin Powell announce the credit system to rebuild the country. That move would British “discovery” at the United Nations. Bush and bankrupt the British banking nexus that spawned the Blair invaded Iraq in March 2003. Bushes and their ilk—at last. Ten years later, Iraq and Afghanistan are in ruins, with more than a million dead. Afghanistan’s biggest industry is producing the vast majority of the world’s opium and heroin in the British-controlled Helmand Province, with the money laundered through British George Bush: banks in the Persian Gulf. Today, the British-Saudi alli- ance continues to arm and deploy Islamic jihad (Salaf- The Unauthorized Biography ist) crazies, into Syria and throughout the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The old Bush-Blair lies about By Webster G. Tarpley weapons of mass destruction—now in Iran and Syria— and are limply put forward by Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron to justify war that would esca- late quickly to World War III. The groundbreaking and widely cited Collapse, Bail-Out, Austerity exposé of the Bush Six years into the George W. Bush Presidency, the family, in a new post-industrial looting, deregulation, and speculation edition. strategy of London and Wall Street blew up. A quadril- lion dollars in derivatives and other financial scams began to pop, and banks collapsed. Prescott Bush’s grandson authorized U.S. funds (tax revenues and Fed Now available in PDF format from the funny money) to bail out the perpetrators. That program LaRouche Publications continues in the U.S and Europe, as the bubble grows Store. far beyond pre-2007 levels. The prescribed remedy of $19.95 Or order by phone: 800-278-3135 the British imperial system has been savage austerity, cuts in income and services, now destroying Europe

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